Small Axe and The Crown dominate BAFTA TV nominations
No sooner are the year’s film awards out of the way, than TV awards season kicks in with BAFTA announcing the nominations for
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Nomadland takes Oscar’s biggest prizes on a less diverse night than expected
Nomadland has taken three of the top awards at the 2021 Oscars, at a ceremony delayed for two months by the pandemic. As
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Nomadland, Sound of Metal and Promising Young Woman dominate Spirit Awards
The awards season front-runner Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has taken four prizes – including Best Feature and Best Director – at the Independent Spirit
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Golden Globes organisers expel former president Philip Berk over race article
The beleaguered organisation that runs the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has moved quickly to expel its eight-time former president, Philip
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Nomadland dominates the Covid-delayed BAFTAs
Nomadland – a film about a woman travelling around the US after the financial crash – has dominated the BAFTAs, at a Covid-delayed,
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BAFTA honours Prince Philip as it hands out technical film awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh at its first standalone ceremony for technical
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Cineworld, Warner Bros and Disney give a taste of post-Covid cinema
With the film business in chaos, as one of the industries most severely hit by Covid restrictions, two announcements have given an indication
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Golden Globes organisers pledge to admit 13 black members in race row
“Thank you to the all-white Hollywood Foreign Press,” the British star Sacha Baron Cohen said as he accepted his Golden Globe, when Borat
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Spike Lee invited to return to historic Cannes Jury President role
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have invited the director Spike Lee to preside over the jury at this year’s delayed event,
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British stars, snubbed by BAFTA, are nominated for Oscars
Four British stars, who failed to be recognised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, have been shortlist for the most
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Nomadland, Rocks, The Father and The Mauritanian among BAFTA’s diverse shortlist
Leading figures in the British film industry have welcomed the first set of BAFTA Film Award nominations to emerge since the process was
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Nomadland and Borat dominate diverse, virtual Golden Globes ceremony
What is certain to be the most unconventional awards season in living memory has got underway in earnest with the Golden Globes giving
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Rocks, The Father and His House dominate BIFAs
Sarah Gavron’s Rocks took five BIFA, including the top prize Sarah Gavron’s drama Rocks has emerged as the most successful film at the
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Nomadland and Saint Maud impress London Film Critics Circle
One of the early front-runners in the delayed film awards season, Nomadland, has collected three prizes from the London Film Critics Circle, including
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1917 tops a 2020 UK box office crushed by Covid
It’s been an unprecedented year across all walks of life – all sectors of industry – but the global film and entertainment business
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Netflix dominates Brit-heavy Golden Globe nominations
The most nominated film and TV series at this year’s Covid-delayed Golden Globes are Netflix productions, with both the biopic Mank and drama
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British talent honoured by Spirits as film awards season starts to take shape
British actors, writers and directors have been listed among the nominees for the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards – a major US ceremony honouring
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Bond 25 delayed for a third time
With the briefest of statements, the producers of the long-awaited 25th instalment of the James Bond franchise have announced that’s release has been
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What’s Worth Seeing – or avoiding – from 2020?
Well, that’s a year that many people will be glad to see the back of – not least a cinema industry where social
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Contagion director Steven Soderbergh to produce Covid Oscars show
The body behind the Oscars – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – have picked the director of the global pandemic
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